I learned that writing is the consolation prize you are given when you don’t get the thing you want the most.
LANG LEAVAnd you said ecstasy was a storm cloud, just before the rain would burst into the night sky, like a thousand aquatic stars-and not one single moment before.
More Lang Leav Quotes
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You may grow to love this person but remember they are not yours to keep. Their purpose isn’t to save you but to show you how to save yourself.
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Before I fell in live with words, with setting skies and singing birds – it was you I fell in love with first.
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Souls do not have calendars or clocks, nor do they understand the notion of time or distance. They only know it feels right to know one other.
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Before the tears that tore us, when our history was before us.
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Who you love and who loves you back determines so much in your life.
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The most beautiful thing is not when you learn to live without something: it’s the moment you realize you never needed it in the first place.
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She would fondly call him her Frankenstein, this man who was a patchwork of all the things she had ever longed for.
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Isn’t it strange how much of our lives are interchangeable, how little is truly ours.
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I want you to be happy. I want someone else to know the warmth of your smile, to feel the way I did when I was in your presence.
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The things that seem to matter less, are the ones we put on show.
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We all have moments of darkness, moments when we are so unlike ourselves. And like vultures they wait for a slip, a misstep, then they take that part of us and try to convince the world that is all we are.
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I loved you more than love was allowed.
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It is the mark of a great poet to write words that feel as though they have stood witness to your most intimate memory of love.
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It’s so dark right now, I can’t see any light around me. That’s because the light is coming from you. You can’t see it but everyone else can.
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Fear isn’t a reason when it comes to love–it’s an excuse. Anyone who has ever been in love will tell you that.
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